Namco Bandai has confirmed that Dark Souls, the action RPG follow-up to 2009's sleeper hit, Demon's Souls, will be released in Europe on October 7. Along with the standard version, Namco is producing a limited editon package for those who pre-order; it will contain an art book, a mini-strategy guidebook, behind-the-scenes videos and the game's soundtrack for digital download.

To celebrate the announcement, the publisher has also released a new trailer. Witness the size of those monsters...